Populations living at the edge of a species' range of distribution often experience sub-optimal conditions and different selective pressures than those located at more central locations. Thus, in the context of climate change, edge populations may provide key information to understand the evolution of species under harsher climatic conditions, helping to predict future demographic changes and distribution shifts. Our main goal was to assess the effect of environmental variation on the reproduction of red deer (Cervus elaphus) and roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) populations living at the edge of their range (i.e. Mediterranean and Alpine ecosystems). This thesis is structured in three chapters that contain 6 research studies. Chapter I analy...
Roe deer give birth each year in May. At each reproductive event, a female can be in different repro...
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is a common ungulate in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. The different ...
Aim: The Expansion-Contraction model has been used to explain the responses of species to climatic c...
Populations living at the edge of a species' range of distribution often experience sub-optimal cond...
Body condition for reproduction in capital breeders such as the red deer (Cervus elaphus) is mostly ...
In the last decades, climate change has caused an increase in mean temperatures and a reduction in a...
[Aim] This paper describes the dispersal process of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus, 1758) wi...
Temporal changes in phenological traits arising as a consequence of recent rapid environmental chang...
Red deer (Cervus elaphus) introduced to Patagonia have reached high densities in the forest-steppe e...
Across its distributional range, the European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) encounters a wide range...
The red deer is in the Iberian Peninsula at the southwestern edge of its European range and although...
We studied partial migrations in the European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), a species particularly...
Fundamental understanding of the factors influencing cervid antler size, development and investment ...
The most common framework under which ungulate migration is studied predicts that it is driven by sp...
Despite the abundant literature on behavioural ecology of roe deer, few studies have been carried ou...
Roe deer give birth each year in May. At each reproductive event, a female can be in different repro...
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is a common ungulate in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. The different ...
Aim: The Expansion-Contraction model has been used to explain the responses of species to climatic c...
Populations living at the edge of a species' range of distribution often experience sub-optimal cond...
Body condition for reproduction in capital breeders such as the red deer (Cervus elaphus) is mostly ...
In the last decades, climate change has caused an increase in mean temperatures and a reduction in a...
[Aim] This paper describes the dispersal process of roe deer (Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus, 1758) wi...
Temporal changes in phenological traits arising as a consequence of recent rapid environmental chang...
Red deer (Cervus elaphus) introduced to Patagonia have reached high densities in the forest-steppe e...
Across its distributional range, the European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) encounters a wide range...
The red deer is in the Iberian Peninsula at the southwestern edge of its European range and although...
We studied partial migrations in the European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), a species particularly...
Fundamental understanding of the factors influencing cervid antler size, development and investment ...
The most common framework under which ungulate migration is studied predicts that it is driven by sp...
Despite the abundant literature on behavioural ecology of roe deer, few studies have been carried ou...
Roe deer give birth each year in May. At each reproductive event, a female can be in different repro...
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is a common ungulate in Switzerland, Austria and Italy. The different ...
Aim: The Expansion-Contraction model has been used to explain the responses of species to climatic c...